I'll be back

So this evening Leah and I booked our flights (business class using our hard earned miles with Virgin) for our week long visit to the U.K. in January next year. Couple that with spending a long weekend in Washington D.C. in early December means that I’ve used up all of my vacation days for the year. So I guess this Christmas will probably be the first time in my working life that I have to work and not get a whole week off!

And this will be my first visit back to the U.K. in over 2 years! I am sure my parents will be more than glad to see me. But to be honest, apart from family connections there is nothing that draw me to the U.K. right now, or ever. There are nothing that I can get in the U.K. that I can get in the U.S. but cheaper, better, more choices. Especially not with the current foreign exchange rate!

Talking about Christmas, I think the new U2 iPod will make great Christmas gift for me even if I have never been a U2 fan 🙂 (Hint, hint. Although a new tennis racket will do very nicely too) I think it will be problematic on how to protect the iPod and show off the black/red exterior at the same time.

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Weekend ecto progress

I managed to work on ecto a bit on Friday evening and late into the night last night. I didn’t go to bed until 2:50 AM! I was planning to work most of today on ecto as well but my PC laptop refused to connect to the Wi-Fi network this afternoon, and thus no CVS access. After trying to fix it for 30 minutes and I couldn’t find a single ethernet cable in the apartment I took that as a sign and gave up. I ended up playing Rogue Spear until 4 PM when I went to the cinema with Leah to see The Grudge starring Sarah Michelle Gellar… 🙂

I did manage to work on a number of items this evening when we got back from the cinema. The new UI is 90% done. But as my boss at my first programming job said,

“You spend 10% of the time working on the first 90% of the project, then spend 90% of the time for the last 10% of the work.”

So even though the UI is stable now, I am sure I will be spending time polishing up once more people start testing it.

There are also a few server issues (Blogware compatibility, Conversant compatibility, Blogger UTF-8 encoding (or rather lack of), and MT running on XP/SP2/IIS5 to name but a few) that I need to clear up before releasing this new version for public beta testing.

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ecto progress

I’ve spent most of today adding a long overdue feature into the next version of ecto. I’ve never been satsified with the current profile setup process, and probably neither are the users. So for the next version there will be a ‘proper’ profile creation wizard in place of the existing dialog window. This new wizard also has auto discovery capability so if the blog has the relevant RSD link the wizard will automatically retrieve and populate the profile with the login information from the server.

Oh and by the way, this post is composed using the next version of ecto 🙂 There are still much to do but hopefully I will be able to let a few people to try the app out in the next few weeks time.

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Firefox for Gmail

Oh and I forgot to make it more clear in my last Gmail post. If you have a blog or website, use Firefox already (or not) and want a Gmail account, go over to Spread Firefox and promote Firefox.

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